The Machine That Killed Bad People (1990)

The Machine That Killed Bad People is about the cultural and political history of the Philippines leading up to the overthrow of President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 It also addresses the role of electronic media in the struggle for power and more broadly American intervention in the Third World Using a structure that emulates the way television news programs construct meaning through fragmentation the tape interweaves clips of Filipino activists and reporters a fictional television anchorwoman and correspondent commentary by independent filmmaker Trinh T Minhha Fagins offcamera voice and script and anonymous excerpts from commercial television